Quotes about death

A straight fight in an equal battle takes some bravery, but braver is he who, knowing that he would have to sacrifice ninety-five as against five of the enemy, faces death.

Mahatma Gandhi

My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don’t ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father.

Johnny Cash

I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding.

Socrates

Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we’d all have frozen to death!

Mark Twain

Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember that evils are things to be avoided, but death is inevitable.

Epictetus

All trials are trials for one’s life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.

Oscar Wilde

Nor for you, for one alone, Blossoms and branches green to coffins all I bring, For fresh as the morning, thus would I chant a song for you O sane and sacred death.

Walt Whitman

In our society, any man who doesn’t cry at his mother’s funeral is liable to be condemned to death.

Albert Camus

I know death follows me, but I murder him first.

Tupac Shakur

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

William Shakespeare